The Readiness Diagnostic
The self-assessment tells you what one person thinks. The diagnostic tells you what your organization actually has — scored, reconciled, and read out by a senior advisor.
How It Works
Separate Interviews
We interview your data, IT, and BI leaders individually — the people who see how data really flows, each from a different seat.
Scoring
Your organization is scored across the five data foundations — architecture, quality, governance, documentation, and culture — using the same instrument as the free assessment, so results are comparable over time.
Reconciliation
Where your leaders disagree, we dig in. The gaps between their answers are usually the most valuable finding — and something a single-respondent self-assessment structurally cannot surface.
Scored Readout
You get an executive-ready readout: your readiness profile across the five foundations and the top three gaps blocking AI value — with a recommended order of attack.
What You Walk Away With
- →A scored readiness profile across all five data foundations, built from your leaders' combined view — not one person's guess.
- →The top three gaps standing between your organization and AI value, and why they come first.
- →A record of where your data, IT, and BI leaders see things differently — and what that disagreement means.
- →A defensible answer to "are we ready?" for your board, executive team, or oversight body.
Where It Leads
The diagnostic stands on its own. Most clients then continue with one or both of the following.
AI Output Assurance
We audit a representative sample of your actual analytics and AI outputs against 75+ known data pitfalls, so you know what you're shipping is sound — powered by our open-source datapitfalls engine.
Roadmap & Advisory
A prioritized plan to close the gaps, ongoing senior advisory to execute it, and re-assessment against the same instrument to prove the score moved.
Who Runs It
Every diagnostic is run personally by Ben Jones, founder of Data Literacy — author of Avoiding Data Pitfalls (Wiley) and ten books on data and AI literacy, instructor of data visualization at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, and advisor to government and enterprise organizations. You work with the person whose name is on the method — not a delivery team you've never met.
Request a Scoping Conversation
Tell us a little about your organization and we'll set up a short call to see whether the diagnostic is the right fit. No obligation either way.
Not ready for a facilitated engagement? Take the free 10-minute self-assessment and see where you stand.